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A Focus on Our Troops Home Military Missions by Jeff Ables JULY | 2011 | V11 N3 A Focus on Our Troops Home Military Missions by Jeff Ables Encouraged in the Lord Frank Wood A Quest for the Intent of the Biblical Author Jason Gaddis Compensation Part I Dr. Dave Hardy Reasons Why Josh Merrell Living in a Glass House Aaron Denson A publication of the Global Independent Baptist Fellowship We have some ideas that will only materialize “... my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” Ps. 45:1b once we get the basic workflow down. Policies will evolve over these first few issues. Any inconsistencies are unintentional. Please participate in the requests through the GIBF email list. Church news, requests for articles, and church practices will prove great resources if you will submit them as they come up on the list. Allow the magazine to be journalism, not preaching. All truth is God’s truth and sometimes others might say it better than we do. Rather than fill half the paper with disclaimers, accept the benefit of an article without assuming it promotes everything the the ready writer author ever believed. Neither fellowships nor friendships demand agreement on every point. This magazine doesn’t either. Consider supporting the magazine GIBF & BASF | Wayne Hardy, Editor monthly. Regular church support is our primary source of funding. Individual subscriptions ome of the men who have influenced me advertising campaign by BASF in which the cover a small amount. Our team will be working most have largely been through accidental company bragged: “At BASF, we don’t make hard to make it worth your investment. friendships, humanly speaking, of course. a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot Remember that I am also a pastor. SGod knew I needed their influence. I didn’t. of the products better.” Likewise, fellowships Becoming Editor affords me even less time Like most preachers, I choose friends who are don’t start churches or call pastors. They might or desire to spend arguing over fine points or like me. The closer to my particular beliefs make them better, though. How? By exposing defending others. they are, the more inclined I am to like them. us to others who are passionate about the local After completing the first issue, my respect for I have to thank the Lord, though, for the many church, who might strengthen us in areas that Rich Farinella and Dave Lydick has skyrocketed. wonderful times He has surprised me. Some of we are weak. I’ve met men in that setting who Bro. Rich started the paper and spent five years the richest relationships I have I wasn’t smart challenged my soul-winning, provoked my building a good foundation. I doubt starting enough to seek out. The deepest impressions on prayer life, and raised my bar for preaching. a paper was on his bucket list. Bro. Dave took my life have sometimes come from men who I pastor a wonderful church that can become it five more years and developed the base of weren’t like me enough for me to befriend. content with what I produce. A point of financial support. They obviously have that Therein lies the primary reason I am involved maturity for any pastor is knowing there can be a pioneering spirit, both having started wonderful in an organized Fellowship and other fellowship vast difference between a satisfied congregation churches. Church planters tend to have a gene meetings. I need the opportunity to be exposed and a satisfied Savior. When they’re happy, I the rest of us lack. If I can come close to adding to men I don’t yet know. You might, too. Elijah’s tend to be happy…and satisfied. Should I be? in my time what they contributed in theirs, I “I only…” mindset wasn’t his finest hour, and it Bible Baptist Church deserves a pastor who will be thrilled. was answered by God’s insistence that He had refuses to be self-contented and who surrounds So dawns a new era for the Baptist Times. If thousands more just as committed as Elijah. himself with men whose very presence I can somehow collect enough thoughts from You can find many godly, disciplined men in highlights his inadequacies. A Fellowship can good minds and pure hearts to make your walk the ministry whose strengths hone some of your turn the introduction of new friends into with the Lord a little richer and your ministry own or identify areas of weakness. We tend to divine appointments that can refine a pastor’s more effective, it will be time well served. Thank look for our own kind with a criterion closer character and strengthen his discipline. you for the privilege. to personality than doctrine. That’s where a Not everyone can or will attend a fellowship Fellowship serves a useful purpose. A good meeting. My passion for the Baptist Times Fellowship or fellowship-type meeting generally is to help produce this sharpening process reflects a more limited, yet shared set of beliefs, using print. You’ll find some great minds and thus providing a safety net of exposure. It safely passionate hearts in the GIBF with something exposes us to men with similar philosophy, to say that would profit us all. They have but varying strengths and disciplines we often inspiring stories and practical wisdom that lack. I’ve gone to many fellowship meetings result from documenting the work of God content with who I was until I met someone in ministries big and small, both known and who demonstrated how much more Christ can obscure. I hope the Baptist Times can capture actually extract from a man. My best efforts have the best of their efforts to the strengthening of been revealed as anemic once God interrupted local churches around the world. my chosen circle of fellowship with a flash of With that goal of sharpening in mind, here passion from some previously unknown vessel are a few considerations I would request as we Pastor Wayne Hardy, Editor of honor. enter this next era. You may remember the popular national Allow us time to settle into the format. The Global Baptist Times 3 THE GLOBAL BAPTIST TIMES in this issue 4 A Focus on Our Troops | Jeff Ables Home Military Missions 6 Church News | Harry Hix Happenings Across the Country 8 Baptist Times Interview | Dr. Dave Hardy Interview with Pastor Joe Dickinson 10 The Moderator’s Memo | Frank Wood Encouraged in the Lord 11 Reasons Why | Josh Merrell The Importance of Doctrine 12 GIBM Report | Bob Lewis 13 GIBM Missionary Updates 14 Church Planting | Rich Farinella You Can’t Cut it Down! 15 Heartland Baptist Bible College | Sam Davison 16 Biblical Preaching | Jason Gaddis A Quest for the Intent of the Biblical Author 17 The Preacher’s Study | Dr. Dave Hardy Compensation Part I 18 The Family in Ministry | Aaron Denson Living in a Glass House 19 Florida Baptist College | Bruce E. Turner 20 Church & Evangelist Listings 22 The Ministry Wife | Lisa Hardy Welcome the Pain 22 Remembering a Faithful Servant | Baptist Times 23 Missions Trip to Hungary | Mike Carney 4 THE GLOBAL BAPTIST TIMES a focus on our troops Home Military Missions | Jeff Ables ould you consider our military as Andrew Jackson by John Meacham. Inside all of Jewell College. This is one great example of a mission field ripe unto harvest? these books are the exploits of military men who Baptist people being an influence upon the Men and women of the military became great leaders and some even served as military in a very positive manner. deserveW our great admiration, but they also president of our beloved United States. Signs are displayed across our country with deserve to hear the Good News of salvation Throughout American history there have such words as “Pray for our troops” or “We through Jesus Christ. We live in a time when been Baptists willing to give the Gospel to our support our troops,” but should the most military personnel need the biblical influence troops. Over one-third of the one hundred plus important challenge be “Pray for the salvation of Baptist preaching. We need to preach the chaplains employed by the Continental Army of our troops?” Mission-minded Baptists need Gospel to all, and that includes members of our during the Revolutionary War were Baptist. to consider our military as a mission field. A Armed Forces. These Baptist men supported liberty and were reserve unit, a guard unit, or an active duty Several events have transpired over the last feared by the British because they were men of station could be in your area. There, you will several months that have focused attention on action and prayer. John Gano, who was pastor find a mission field of young men and women the military and its important role in our society. of the First Baptist Church in New York City, who have discipline, loyalty, and leadership and One event that has been the focus of the public also served as a chaplain during this time and was who need to be presented with the Gospel of eye is the involvement of the Navy Seals in the an influential figure with George Washington. Jesus Christ. When a soldier comes to a saving death of Osama Bin Laden. To bring this man Along with other Baptist chaplains, Gano was knowledge of Christ, he becomes a soldier of of terror to justice is certainly a great victory so significant that at the close of the war, George the cross, who will be trained with all the tools for the American military and the American Washington, the Father of our country, requested necessary for discipleship.
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